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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Operations Barrier Analysis | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping | ![]() Operations Fault Tree Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | For a risk that can only be managed through multiple layers of protection, the method examines the effectiveness of each barrier. It shows where safeguards are missing, too weak, or fail under real conditions. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | For a critical top event with several possible triggers, the method logically models failure paths. It makes visible which combinations of conditions can lead to damage. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 2-4 h | 45-60 min | 2-6 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-6 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Barrier Inventory, Failure Analysis per Barrier, Action Backlog | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Fault Tree, Critical Paths, Cause Hypotheses, Control Actions |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Root causeSafetyIncident | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | RiskRoot causeSafety |



